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Stone Cold Ohio

Little Axe

Little Axe is what you get when you take the Blues and subject them to the 21st century. The deep Blues, channelled through time, dubbed, tweaked, sampled, processed - courtesy of the legendary guitar genius, bluesman and Sugarhill Gang/Tackhead mainstay Skip 'Little Axe' McDonald.

Little Axes's fifth album is 'Stone Cold Ohio' - 15 tracks of future blues - dubbed-out, dark, and smokey. It includes covers of songs by Skip James, Allen Toussaint, and Mos Def man Will Calhoun. 'Ohio' traces a line from African chants, Afro-American field songs, blues, gospel, soul, funk and dub, and takes it on into the 21st Century. 'Stone Cold Ohio' features Skip's ex-Sugarhill Gang and Tackhead colleagues Doug Wimbish and Keith LeBlanc, and a cast of characters like upcoming reggae star Ghetto Priest and is produced by Adrian Sherwood.

Stone Cold Ohio at realworldrecords.com